Avoid foods containing high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). It’s not just in cereals and soft drinks but also in ketchup and bologna, baked goods, soups and salad dressings.

Spend more, eat less.All this “cheap food” is making us fat and sick. It’s also bad for the health of the environment. The higher the quality of the food you eat, the more nutritious it is and the less of it you’ll need to feel satisfied.

Pay no heed to nutritional science or the health claims on packages.Consider that the healthiest foods in the supermarket–the fresh produce–are the ones that don’t make FDA-approved health claims.

Shop at the farmers’ market.You’ll begin to eat foods in season, when they are at the peak of their nutritional value and flavor, and you’ll cook, because you won’t find anything processed or microwavable.

How you eat is as important as what you eat.Americans are fixated on nutrients, good and bad, while the French and Italians focus on the whole eating experience.So, relax. Eat Food. And savor it.

This is it. Pretty easy huh ? Try to follow these rules as much as possible, and you’re already doing more than any diet would.

I just returned from my home town back to The Big City – I hate it, but love it at the same time.

I was on stand-by for one week, reading and sleeping all day long. Just imagine: waking up in the morning, going into the garden filled with vegetables and just take a deep breath. It feels like you just died and gone straight to Heaven.. If there is such thing as a perfect day… how about a.. perfect week 😉

I took some pictures with my parents garden. Keep in mind that these were sprayed only with water.

Have a look:

Organic Tomatoes

I’m not a very big fan of the word organic. What does it mean exactly? I have read Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma where he actually tries to give a meaning to this word. Let’s take an example: organic salami – called organic because it has (among other things) organic pork meat – called organic because the pork was fed with organic corn – called organic because it was sprayed with organic fertilizer… Get my point?

Organic Cucumbers

The bad part is that people don’t know this. They think that just because that chicken has a big ORGANIC stamp on top of it, it means that they brought it from the country side, living happily at a farm, eating only worms and whatever. Guess what. It’s not! Michael Pollan gives a lot of great examples with chickens, cows, porks etc.

Organic Carrot

Don’t get me wrong. I love eating “organic” – where I come from, we call it natural, but let’s face it, organic products sounds much better than natural products.

But sorry folks, this is what I call Real Food. The one that is picked by myself, from my garden. These is the real thing, I have never seen uglier tomatoes in my life, but at the same time they are the juiciest, full of flavor. And you know what, they have a real taste, a real tomato taste, not like those cardboard things that you buy in the winter.

All in all.. this is it, my garden. Perfect just the way it is. I don’t think it can get more primal than this 😀